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    Ruminations from the Arizona Room: The Cup of Life

    April 24, 20171 Comment
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    Ruminations from the Arizona Room is a series by Dr. Elizabeth Oakes, a former Shakespeare professor, a spiritual writer, and an award winning poet. A Sedonian of four years, she will share the thoughts that arise as she sits in the literal Arizona room in her home as well as the metaphorical “Arizona room” that is Sedona.

    photo_elizabethoakes_216_20170109By Elizabeth Oakes
    (April 24, 2017)

    The Cup of Life

    The cup holds everything –
    things you think you want
    and things you know you don’t.

     

    You will call it milk
    as from your mother
    as she fed you
    through the pain
    sometimes
    of your pulling and her fullness.

     

    20170424_oakesYou will drink life like this –
    you will cry for it,
    grow muscle and bone on it.

     

    You will think you hold the cup.
    You will swear you do.
    You will tip the cup to your open lips.
    You will tip it to the lips of others.

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    Sometimes it will be lemonade, whiskey,
    coca-cola, and then other times wormwood
    or that concoction Socrates drank.

     

    It will always be there,
    but sometimes you will find
    even the delicious to be sour or bitter.
    Sometimes you will drink, but
    there will be no sustenance.

     

    This is how you grow something
    other than muscle and bone.

     

    It will pass on down, this cup,
    just as it passed to you, for

     

    it is always full.

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    1 Comment

    1. Randall Reynolds on April 29, 2017 10:59 am

      Very beautiful Libby! Thanks again

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